Coaching Clinics
Vault Summit - 1/19
Next All-Comers
19-20- Pole Vault Summit
19-20 - Riverside CC
20 - Cal State Northridge
20 - Cal State LA
20 - Citrus College
20 - Compton College
20 - Downey HS
20 - Los Gatos HS
20 - Santa Monica HS
20 - UC Riverside
Coaching  Openings
Santa Clara (SS): head T/F
Hesperia (SS): Head XC
Walnut (SS): PV/spr/hurd
Torrey Pines (SD): PV
Mira Mesa (SD): hurdles
Mater Dei: jumps/spr/dist
Petaluma (NCS): throws
Great Oak (SS): jumps
Pioneer: jumps/spr/hurd


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February 15-17


March 31
Full details soon!

 

June 14-16
   

Arkansas High School Invitational
Randal Tyson Track Center, University of Arkansas - 1/13/2007
Terry Prentice (Unat/Diamond Ranch HS) takes 60mHH/LJ with nation-leading 7.93 & 23-11.5 marks!
Meet Summary

UNM Mark Shumate Open -All Comers - 1/13/2007
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Convention Center -ABQ, NM
Women 60 Meter Dash
1 Mc Gee, Whitney Acorn Track Club 7.81 - student at Berekeley HS
Women 200 Meter Dash
2 Mc Gee, Whitney Acorn Track Club 25.48 5 - Berkeley HS

Los Gatos HS All Comers - 1/13/2007
Tori Anthony (Unat, Castilleja) 13-05.5 GPV
Nico Weiler (Unat/Los Gatos) & Casey Roche (Unat/St. Francis) both 15-06
Meet Summary

Granite Bay HS All-Comers Mini-Meet - 1/13/2007
Eric Banks (unat/Tokay HS) 10.7/B100; Michael Salvatierra (unat/Jesuit HS) 4:08.8/B1500
Kyanna Thomas (Unat/Grace Davis HS) 25.9/58.8 in girls 200/400
Meet Summary

Collegiate Indoor Action
Scott Roth (Granite Bay HS/Univ Wash) 17-06.5 PV and flock of other good Golden Staters Nationwide!
Mindy Neely (Dos Pueblo/BYU) and Sarah Robles (San Jacinto/Alabama) nice!
Link to Results


State Track & Field Meet Power Rankings
A Quick Early Glance at June's State Meet
Boys Teams - LB Poly & JW North Should Battle!

 
More of those great anchor 4x4's again this spring? Nellum of LB Poly & Gutteriez of JW North

Girls Teams - Familiar Favorites


2006 All-State Cross-Country Teams by Grade

Senior Class Boys!


photo by Bill Leung

Chad Hall - as Senior - Chad Hall as Frosh - Great 4 years of Development!!
Part of a great senior class that had a couple of stars capable of "taking
it all," out Senior All-State Team leader crafted one of the most successful
season long campaigns of any in State History!!!

Link to Boys Sr Class All-State Squad

Link to All-State Individual Squads Page!
Lid-Lifter All-Comers #4
Saturday January 13th, 2006 @ Dominguez HS

  
Kierstan Kirkland (Unat-JW North, Riverside) went 44.6 for 300m LH and 9.4 for 60m HH.
Nevin Gutteriez (Unat/JW North) clocked 21.7 for 200m and 2:02.8 for an 800m workout run!

Results from January 13, All-Comers at Dominguez

Where They Are Going (WTAG) - Middle Schoolers!
Usual great group of age-groupers coming up
Help us out with their schools of Attendance please!

 
(left) Thandi Stewart 400-800 Star is at Logan we are told - wow!!
Devallee Pedrogo Mission Viejo hurdle star
Check the list and help us out!!


2007 National High School Federation
Track & Field Rule Changes

Changes, Points of Emphasis, Comments,
Weight Event Sectors, & Pole Weight Rules in Vault
What's new for 2007!


Southern California Roadrunner Founder Passes On

 
Coach Japs and a So Cal Roadrunners Camp Gathering


photo by Ruth Wysocki
1968 AAU Champs - Roadrunners with National Champ
Ruth Wysocki - Ruth top center was SCRR team member next year

More Pictures of Coach Japs, his life and the Roadrunners

Hermosa Cemetary, 900 Meridian Street, Colton, Ca 92324-1656
Directions:  Going east on 10 freeway exit Pepper go back north across freeway turn right, go east to Meridian Street- left on Meridian  to 900 Meridian street - Hermosa Gardens  on your right.

From Dr. Mike Leong:

Mr. Japs will have a graveside service on Friday Jan. 19th at 1PM at Hermosa Gardens cemetary behind the Arrowhead Regional medical center off Meridian . This is located between the border of the City of Colton and Rialto. A Memorial service is planned for Sat. Jay 20th. Site and time to be announced. I will keep you informed and hopefully by tommorow.
Mike Leong

Coach Dave Japs , renowned Rialto High School cross country and track coach died in his home this evening as he was preparing to attend the Roadrunners End of Season banquet.

Coach Japs founded the Rialto Roadrunners in 1961 as one of the first running club for girls .They became the Southern California Roadrunners in 1979, the premier youth distance club in America by winning over 50 youth national titles including this year. Coach Japs was selected as national Junior CC coach and National Race Walking coach in the 70¢s. Coach Japs coached such notable athletes as Olympian Ruth Wysocki, Frankie (3:53 mile) and Chuck Assuma also Sue Brodock: National and World Record holder in race walking. He always had powerful distance teams at Rialto High school , and was always a fixture sitting in his chair at distance meets.

Dave changed thousands of lives by introducing the sport of distance running to the youth of the Inland Empire .Hundreds of his runners went on to run in college because of his hard work and support. Coach Dr Mike Leong broke the sad news to over 300 runners and parents at tonight's banquet.

Editor's Note: (could not leave out Will Stephens per Jerry Colman's suggestion--now calling it a trio)  If there was a trio to be named the "fathers of Caifornia female prep distance running," it would be Dave Japs, Will Stephens of the greater Sacramento area, and current San Jose State Coach Augie Argabright. The excellence that their clubs, the So Cal Roadrunners, Wills Spikettes, and the San Jose Cindergals, carried up from the age-group to the prep ranks when official CIF competition for Girls was started in the 1970's kind of set the tone that has been followed ever since. If you competed at the championship level ever since the beginning of CIF statewide competition it was often their athletes out front inviting the competition to compete in their wake at a level that would be at the absolute elite level nationally. Names such as Su-Mei Lee, Kathy Weston (Nevada prep for Wills Spikettes), Ann Regan, Cheri Wiliams, and others were but of a few developed by these groups who helped set the tone for Golden State running ever since. The male Roadrunner group was part of a magical era of Inland Empire distance running in Southern California also with the Assuma twins and others who came forth from that club.
Doug Speck
DyeStatCal.com

 
pictures by Karen Villafuerte

Class of 2007 Collegiate Commitments
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